Practical Binary Analysis

5BASIC BINARY ANALYSIS IN LINUX

Even in the most complex binary analysis, you can accomplish surprisingly advanced feats by combining a set of basic tools in the right way. This can save you hours of work implementing equivalent functionality on your own. In this chapter, you’ll learn the fundamental tools you’ll need to perform binary analysis on Linux.

Instead of simply showing you a list of tools and explaining what they do, I’ll use a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge to illustrate how they work. In computer security and hacking, CTF challenges are often played as contests, where the goal is typically to analyze or exploit a given binary (or a running process or server) until you manage to capture a flag hidden in the binary. The flag is usually ...